Jhariah

From the venue:

Genre is not so much a box to be confined in as it is a bag of tricks for Bronx-based musician/animatorJhariah Clare to pull from. The multi-disciplinary artist has a compulsion for writing larger than life songs,stacked high with strings, horns, keys, and broadway-esque vocal arrangements. So attendees of his liveshow may be surprised to see him hit the stage with no band in sight – just his drummer and musicalcollaborator Cole Raser seamlessly transitioning from hard-hitting rock cuts to complex swings fit for aHarlem jazz club. That chameleon-like musicality is exactly what makes the two of them such a fittingduo. Jhariah and Cole met through mutual friends at Pratt Institute, studying 2D animation and film,respectively. They quickly hit it off and before long, Jhariah’s solo project became a duo. The two of themfunction more like a pair of one-man-bands than two parts of a whole. Both emerging from a generation ofincreasingly self-sufficient independent musicians, this two-piece “band� takes that DIY attitude to heart.